The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-15
NOW BOOM.

Raymond, the great excursion man
of Boston, has arranged to take across
the continent during 1888, seventy
thousand people. They are to travel
in parties Of convenient size, SO as not
to overGroWd hotels and tax railways be-
You'd their capacity. The companies
will go vest by one route and return by
another, Salt Lake being one of the
places to be visited either going or com
ing. OF course these will be only q
small portion Of the people who will
cross the COL tinent next year. and SO
iourn for longer or shorter periods
in This city. There are 9th
ers engaged IL the excursion
business; and then there are the thou
sands who travel independently, for
business or pleasure, going at will, re-
naming at place as long as suits their
convenience, aad moving on when they
get ready to go. We mention the
forthcoming Raymond excursions
merely to give an intimation of the i'm
mense tourist travel hat may be ex-
pected during the coming few months.
Most OF these people have money and
many OF them take advantage of the
cheap excursion rates TO come west, not
SO much for health and pleasure as to
look for new homes and opportunities
to invest their means. It is among
these people that we must work
to bring on the boon" which Salt Lake
needs to put her on the road to great
ness. It is with them that our adver-
tising should be done, and to them that
the beauties, advantages and resources
of the city and vicinity should be made
known. The Chamber of Commerce,
the Real Estate Association and the
railroads ought to cooperate in the
matter Of presenting Salt Lake TO. the
health and home-seekere.
But this is not all. The City itself,
the municipal government, should be
active and energetic, and do its share
towards attracting the tourists, invit-
ing them to remain with us as long as
possible, and inducing as many SIS may
be to settle here, where their wealth
and enterprise can have chance. Ma
ture has one her share, and man
should do the rest. It will do us little |
good, in fact it will be injurious, to in
vite strangers to come here to live, and
then tell them that our streets are
neither paved nor macadanaized, but
are such as nature constructed, being
intensely dusty in summer and in-
tensely muddy in winter; to inform the
inquirer as to sewerage that there is
not sewer in the city, and no defined
plan adopted Tor laying one; to say to
the seRTcher fer q desirable home that
the water supply is so limited that for
the three kot months in the year the
law enforceS the most rigid economy
in the use of the fluid, the
penalty for misuse or extravaganza
being severe fine, II we cannot
make all the improvements required at
once, We may st least iaaugurate some
"a e11CAAK1 anu EI0ul1CbS Gu6 Will or
disposition which is SO much admired.
We can make beginning on the i'm
provemeAt of streets, and thereby in
dieate an intention to provide good
roads. We may declare IN favor of a
system of sewerage, and go as far as
our means will pepTait with the system.
We Gao show enterprise and q wiling
ness and determination to make Salt
Lake what it should be, the ha d.
soonest, the most attractive and the
most healthful CITY in the west. 9sos
If the city authorities and the citizens
generally win labor 'intelligentfy and
energeticailg, the spripg of 1888 will in
augurate boom here, and next year
viii BE- hveiier and more prosperous
than any of the past. Let US see if the
population o&nnot be increased 10000
during the year, and the mater;a,
wealth increased prop oriionateiy.